Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Headquartered in San Francisco, the Ninth Circuit is the largest of the thirteen federal Court of Appeals in the United States.

Its reversal rate in cases that go the Supreme Court is the third highest among all the appeals courts, coming in after the Sixth Circuit based in Ohio and the 11th Circuit in Atlanta.

The Ninth Court typically sends the most cases to the Supreme Court of all the Appeals Courts.

Here are some of the biggest cases out of the Ninth Circuit the Supreme Court has overturned along with some cases awaiting judgement.

CASES OVERTURNED

The Travel Ban

In December, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals - all of whom were appointed by President Bill Clinton - ruled President Donald Trump's travel ban policy should be partially blocked because the president appears to have exceeded his authority in issuing the directive.

The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, upheld the Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion that the president has the statutory authority to make national security judgments in the realm of immigration.

Immigrant Bond Hearings

The Supreme Court in February that immigrants, even those with permanent legal status and asylum seekers, do not have the right to periodic bond hearings, overturning a Ninth Circuit decision.

Excessive Force by Police

The Supreme Court ruled that Andrew Kisela, an Arizona police officer who shot a knife-carrying woman four times outside her home, could not be sued on claims that he used excessive force.

In its overturn, the Supreme Court rebuked the 9th Circuit, stressing that it had “repeatedly told courts - and the Ninth Circuit in particular - not to define clearly established law at a high level of generality.”

Pledge of Allegiance

In 2002, the Ninth Circuit ruled the Pledge of Allegiance was unconstitutional because of its use of the words “under God.” The Supreme Court unanimously overruled that decision.

Pregnancy Crisis Centers

The Supreme Court ruled in June the state of California may not require religiously oriented “crisis pregnancy centers” to supply women with information about how to end their pregnancies, overturning a Ninth Circuit decision.

CASES AWAITING JUDGEMENT

The Asylum Ban

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said the administration will file an appeal the Ninth Circuit's decision to bar the Trump administration from refusing asylum to migrants who cross the southern border illegally.

“Whatever the scope of the president’s authority, he may not rewrite the immigration laws to impose a condition that Congress has expressly forbidden,” U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar, a nominee of former President Barack Obama, said in his ruling on the ban.

Dreamers

Earlier this month, the ninth court upheld a nationwide injunction against the administration’s attempt to revoke deportation protections for some 700,000 Dreamers, illegals who were brought into the United States as children by their parents.

The move brings the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program closer to being heard by the Supreme Court.

Transgender Troops

In July, the Ninth Circuit denied another attempt by the administration to implement its plan to ban transgender people from serving openly in the U.S. Armed Services.

The court's move enables transgender people to continue enlisting in the military until the opposing parties go to trial, expected in April 2019.